Questions tagged [network]
A network is a set of computers and the connections between them. Blender allows you to easily harness multiple computers' processing power by setting up a "render farm" over a network.
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How do I force the netrender to render everything on GPU?
I have a server with an Nvidia GPU card and I want to render my images using Cycles on it. I set up Master and Slave instances on the server and a Client instance on my laptop.
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Is the Network Render addon able to render with openGL?
I would like to render an openGL preview using my rendering network, but there is no such option in the rendering engines dropdown. What can I do?
I built the rendering network with "Network Render" ...
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Controlling drivers with data received via TCP/UDP
For a project I need to drive shape keys with data received via a network connection. In my setup I receive input form a TouchOSC app running on an iPad into PureData on a Mac. The input data then is ...
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What is better for rendering in cycles? A network? Or a single monster workstation?
Is it better to have multiple render nodes and do rendering over the network?
If so - is there a special software to set this up and is it hard to configure this? Is there a max amount of render ...
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Network rendering disconnects computers
I'm trying to use the Network Render over several computers and everything starts out great. All of my slaves connect just fine. After awhile of things processing though, the slaves get disconnected (...
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Sending object data from blender with urllib very slow
I am sending object loc rot and scale every keyframe to http address using urllib but the frame rate drops significantly.
Thats the code I am using:
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turn on Cycles GPU render on non CUDA computers
Is there a way to turn on GPU rendering without an installed CUDA driver and without a CUDA enabled graphic card?
I want to send the blend file on my render farm, all the slaves have NVidia CUDA ...
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How to know when object are deleted?
I use blender as a network client. I'm able to know when objects are updated (via handlers). But I would like to notify the server when a object (or mesh, animation, etc.) are removed, how can I do ...
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Shared Network install / config priority
I'd like to deploy Blender with a custom startup scene and some enabled addons on a network drive, so that every user here can run Blender from there with all the settings and addons.
Sounds easy ...
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Blender slaves timeout after rendring few or part of frame
I have a setup of 4 slaves and the master for the netrender. I also have slave on the master itself. After sending the job, through client, frames are properly dispatched and we could see the blender ...
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Single Image rendering with blender netrender
I read this post (Is netrender only useful for multiple frames?) about rendering a single image with netrender.
But how can I combine those images very quickly and easily? Say for example I have 100 ...
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Is there a way to control Blender's GUI remotely?
I would like to control Blender on a remote server (Ubuntu, local network) from my Notebook (Windows 7).
Until now I evaluated the following configurations, none of them works satisfactorily.
1 VNC (...
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What Is Wrong With My Log File In Network Render?
I have sent out a rendering job using Network Render, but everytime I try to view the log file I get an error message which states "This Page Can't Be Displayed" and my Master instance remains in a "...
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Why Do I Get This Error Message When I Send A Job to The Render Network?
I'm trying to use the render network on a Windows 8.1 PC with a local network, but I keep on receiving the error message shown in red when I select "Animation on Network".
Just to explain what I ...
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2 Node Cycles Netrender on totally different machines: Almost the same rendering time? [closed]
I've experimented with Blender Net Rendering for the Cycles Renderer these days. For my test setup, I'm using two totally different nodes:
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Intel Core2Duo (2 Cores, 2 Threads, 2.1 GHz), 4 ...
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Python script to edit addon settings
I am trying to use python to script to change the settings of the Network Render addon. I am attempting to change the tags in the slave that way I don't have to change my blend every time. I am using ...
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OSX Unrecognized Arguments Terminal Render
I am trying to a run a slave blend to connect to a server. I made the slave and it runs on windows and will run fine on when I run in blender and start the service manually with a GUI. How when I try ...
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Is it possible to render video sequence animations with network render?
I would like to render a lengthy video sequence in the VSE faster using network render.
It works great for 3D animations but I can't get it to work with video sequences. The result is usually a blank ...
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Cycles Netrender Returning Black
I have a 2 node netrender setup that is fully functional with Blender render engine but not Cycles. When I do this it is rendering because it takes some time for it to return the blank images but it ...
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How to use baked fluid with network render?
I would like to use blender net render feature, but I know, that currently it does not support baking fluid simulations (see Blender Netrender Manual).
Is it possible to bake it locally and then use ...
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Can I specify a portion of the image to render in Cycles? [duplicate]
Is it currently possible to specify which portion of an image you'd like to render in Cycles? Let's say I'm going to render an image with dimensions 1280x720. Can I render just the rectangle bounded ...
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Why does Network Render require separate Master and Client roles?
As far as I understand it, this is how the Network Render addon works:
The Client is the computer with the file to render. It connects to the master, which sends out the file and sends back the ...
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Set up a render farm with multiple OS and spec
I have quite a few computers at my disposal- about 100 mac pro's bought 2 years ago, just as many windows PC's of varying age (1-3 years), 50 linux machines and a good few terabytes of storage on a ...
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Is there a way to render single frame using network rendering in Cycles?
I'm working on architectural visualisations, and I can't imagine more useful feature. How render farms for rent do that?
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Does Blender support any form of collaborative editing?
I remember there was once a project called Verse, which allowed (or at least was supposed to) collaborative editing in Blender, even using Blender collaboratively with other applications.
Is anything ...
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How may I establish a render farm over WAN?
I'm using the blender network render plugin in the official plugin list. I have a few computers throughout the internet(WAN) that I am able to render on. Assuming I can get network connectivity(...
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